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NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE ACT, 1908. 

 1908, No. 130. 



An Act to consolidate certain Enactments of the General Assembly 

 relating to the New Zealand Institute. 



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament 

 assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : — ■ 



1. (1.) The Short Title of this Act is the New Zealand Institute 

 Act, 1908. 



(2.) This Act is a consolidation of the enactments mentioned in the 

 Schedule hereto, and with respect to those enactments the following pro- 

 visions shall apply : — 



(«.) The Institute and Board respectively constituted under those 

 enactments, and subsisting on the coming into operation of this 

 Act, shall be deemed to be the same Institute and Board respec- 

 tively constituted under this Act without any change of consti- 

 tution or corporate entity or otherwise ; and the members 

 thereof in office on the coming into operation of this Act shall 

 continue in office until their successors under this Act come into 

 office. 



(&.) All Orders in Council, regulations, appointments, societies incor- 

 porated with the Institute, and generally all acts of authority 

 which originated under the said enactments or any enactment 

 thereby repealed, and are subsisting or in force on the coming 

 into operation of this Act, shall enure for the purposes of this 

 Act as fully and effectually as if they had originated under the 

 corresponding provisions of this Act, and accordingly shall, 

 where necessary, be deemed to have so originated. 



(c.) All property vested in the Board constituted as aforesaid shall 

 be deemed to be vested in the Board established and recognized 

 by this Act. 



(d.) All matters and proceedings commenced under the said enact- 

 ments, and pending or in progress on the coming into opera- 

 tion of this Act, may be continued, completed, and enforced 

 under this Act. 



2. (1.) The body now known as the New Zealand Institute (herein- 

 after referred to as " the Institute") shall consist of the Auckland Insti- 

 tute, the Wellington Philosophical Society, the Philosophical Institute 

 of Canterbury, the Otago Institute, the Hawke's Bay Philosophical 

 Institute, the Nelson Institute, the Westland Institute, the Southland 

 Institute, and such others as heretofore have been or may hereafter be 

 incorporated therewith in accordance with regulations heretofore made 

 or hereafter to be made by the Board of Governors. 



(2.) Members of the above-named incorporated societies shall be ipso 

 facto members of the Institute. 



3. The control and management of the Institute shall be vested in a 

 Board of Governors (hereinafter referred to as " the Board "), constituted 

 as follows : — 



The Governor : 



The Minister of Internal Affairs : 



Four members to be appointed by the Governor in Council, of 



whom two shall be appointed during the month of December 



in every year : 



